Pooja Tandon, MD
Geriatric Psychiatry · Toms River, NJNPI 1922377258
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 60 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 13 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $701 and has fallen 98.2% since, to $13 in 2021.
Across 60 payments — averaging $13.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$114
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$96
- Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc$86
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$78
- AbbVie$76
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$65
- plus $265 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$781100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $114 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 7 | $96 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 6 | $86 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 6 | $78 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $76 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $65 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $60 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 4 | $51 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $44 |
| Indivior Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $28 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $26 |
How this compares
$781 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 26 geriatric psychiatry providers in New Jersey.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| VraylarCariprazine Hcl | 21 | $30,481 |
| RexultiBrexpiprazole | 13 | $18,878 |
| Vilazodone Hcl | 33 | $3,227 |
| Lurasidone Hcl | 14 | $3,113 |
| Aripiprazole | 79 | $3,073 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 111 | $1,485 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 103 | $1,291 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 45 | $1,053 |
| Buspirone Hcl | 72 | $1,051 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 39 | $934 |
| Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl | 59 | $848 |
| Dextroamphetamine-AmphetamineDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine | 12 | $610 |
| Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate | 14 | $532 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate ErQuetiapine Fumarate | 25 | $465 |
| Sertraline Hcl | 56 | $415 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieVraylar | $76 | $30,48121 claims |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Rexulti | $78 | $18,87813 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 70th percentile of 26 geriatric psychiatry providers in New Jersey.
Other geriatric psychiatry in Toms River
- Pritesh ShahWestwood$5K
- Lina ShihabuddinNewark$2K
- Shailaja ShahHillsborough$1K
- Gina WilberHowell$1K
- Vanajakshi PaturuFair Lawn$1K
- Sheema ImranPerth Amboy$853
- Syed RazaBrick$843
- Ajanta VinekarPlainsboro$631
- Marc RothmanWestmont$504
- Matthew BarnasCedar Knolls$493
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.